Father John Misty Interview: Elements of Misdirection
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2015
- Hear the story of a successful American singer-songwriter, who grew up in a religious home that he had to break radically with. Meet Joshua Tillman who became Father John Misty, and who has made roleplaying the axis of his captivating songs.
“There are a lot of ways where the rhetoric of being an artist or a musician overlaps with the rhetoric of faith or religion,” says Misty. Growing up in a strict Protestant Evangelical home in suburban Maryland, U.S. - where only Christian culture was permitted - he explains that the fantasy world he has created is similar to the religious world in which he was raised.
Unhappy with his background, the American songwriter felt a strong desire to break with it completely and re-invent himself. The ultimate way of doing so was by changing his name. Several albums were thus produced under the name J. Tillman and were - in Misty’s own words - “cathartic.” Around the age of 30, he had a “creative pre-mature midlife crisis,” which made him realize that in order to survive creatively he had to keep moving. As a response, Father John Misty was created: “Any time you get on stage there’s something inauthentic happening. At worst something inauthentic. And at the most benign you are like an object to people and they’re animating who you are with their own perceptions and whatever else.” Creating the character of Father John Misty then also became a way for him to be “authentically fake.”
Joshua Tillman (Father John Misty) (b. 1981) is an American singer, guitarist, drummer and songwriter. He started out doing solo albums under the name J. Tillman from age 21 and later went on to play drums in the critically acclaimed folk-band Fleet Foxes (2008-2012). In 2012 Tillman released his first album as Father John Misty called ‘Fear Fun’. His second album ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ was released in 2014 and received excellent reviews from the likes of The Guardian, SPIN and Pitchfork.
Father John Misty was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen at the music venue Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 2015 in connection to his concert. Clips from the concert are featured during the video.
Camera: Simon Weyhe and Klaus Elmer
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden - Фільми й анімація
this guy has a great mind
Wow! This is an amazing interview. Thank you to the interviewer who stepped back and just let Josh do the talking. I think I could listen to him pontificate for an eternity.
You are such a FJM fan haha pontificate
Damn! The self-awareness of this guy is amazing.
omg best possible ending "and to get rich"
this is an excelent interview. not many musicians think much nowadays
A lot of them think. And a lot of them just don't give such elaborate answers or don't have the chance to be interviewed by people that have interesting or unique questions that require this kind of answers.
He likes to talk about it, obviously.
That battle of duality can drive you crazy.
Very revealing and enlightening interview.
Wow, he said that he needed to feel ''authentically fake'' to help him with the fact that he is a stereotype and there is nothing he can do about it. He didn't say it exactly like that, but I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. That's kind of rad because I do that in my own way, too. I joke about chakras and spirituality to remind people that I'm not totally full of myself, there's a lot of new agers out there that give us a bad name.
Well said brother! (or sister!)
he's next level
And the winner of this year's Jim Morrison look alike contest is... *drum roll*
At least this dude is still alive
Father John Misty is my religion
Gawd is in the details
He reminds me of jim Morrison
I love him. I dgaf what anyone says. :)
This is the yang to Matthew silver
holy shit
He kinda grew eyebrows for this interview
Jim Morrison reincarnation ?
exaybachay.
Exactly. You don't aim "directly" at irony. Juxtaposition :)
If Josh could stop being super clever and sarcastic for ONE MOMENT then I'll take a poop on myself.
This fools gotta get on Joe Rogan
That will never happen lol
Till-Bot! Sardonic Tornado of unyeilding apathy....I will poop!
J-Tillzan, if you stop reading Cormac McCarthy, Suttree mostly,
I'll jump a fence and, you guessed it, poop myself.
I love how people take their time to tell J that he should "read a bible" bro have u been under a rock and just now found him? bc ur a little late lol
*Yawns*
megalomaniac
He needs to read his Bible.........We need to get back to the true Word Of God - The Holy Bible - Google it ......and read the most published book of all time.
Christopher Moriarty yes!
lol listen to his music he talks about religion a lot
I'm choosing to believe this comment is satire
Lol. Google the bible and you might find a lot of holes in it...enjoy